Summer in Beijing is known for heat, smog, and ubiquitous traffic jams. None of this, however, deters the city from hosting two important conferences. One is the much-anticipated fourth round of six-party talks on the Korean nuclear issue that began July 26; the other was the senior dialogue on global issues between US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick and China’s Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo earlier this week. The latter was first suggested by Chinese President Hu Jintao during the November 2004 APEC meeting in Chile and quickly endorsed by President George W Bush as a forum to engage in deeper dialogues on long-term, strategic issues with China.
Both talks have high stakes for regional security and US-China relations. None has yielded any tangible results, at least for the time being. New developments from these talks, however, show promising signs for the sides to work out practical solutions for some sensitive and difficult issues.
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